your television provider. ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens, i accept your nomination and your program. [ applause ] and now, my friends, that you have made your decision, i will fight for that office with all my heart and soul. [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause ] and with your help, i have no doubt that we will win. help me to do the job in this autumn of conflict and of campaign. help me to do the job in these years of darkness and doubt and crisis which stretch beyond the horizon of tonight s happy vision, and we will justify our glorious past and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding and for honest purpose. thus we will serve our great tradition greatly. i ask of you all you have. i will give you all i have. that was our contender this week, adlai stevenson, accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. we are joined by historian richard norton smith here in adlai stevenson s o
convention, my fellow citizens, i accept your nomination and your program. [ cheers and applause ] and now my friends that you have made your decision, i will fight to win that office with all my heart and my soul. [ cheers and applause ] and with your help, i have no doubt that we will win. [ cheers and applause ] help me to do the job in this autumn of conflict and of campaign. help me to do the job in these years of darkness and doubt and crisis which stretch beyond the horizon of tonight s happy vision. and we will justify our gorgeous past and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding, and for honest purpose. thus we will serve our great tradition greatly. i ask of you all you have. i will give you all i have and that was our contender this week, adlai stevenson, accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. we are joined by historian richard norton smith here in adlai stevenson s hold study in libertyville, illino
testing down. and even though several trump campaign workers and 2 secret service agents tested positive for covert 19 the president stuck to his call while heading to his next campaign rally on tuesday. never. get. i don t get let me tell you let me make it clear we have got the greatest testing program anywhere in the world we have better than anybody in the world our best the best in the world and we have the most of them by having more that we find more safe. less than an hour later on capitol hill a hearing about the white house response members of trump s coronavirus task force said there could be a viable back scene by the end of this year but they disagree with the president s view on testing knowledge i know for sure but so my knowledge none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing that just is a fact in fact we will be doing more testing dr anthony fauci and his colleagues testifying the pandemic is not over after 3 months of stay at home policies and now o
a few minutes ago when i heard the decision of the supreme court on darker these wonderful darker kids and their families have a huge burden lifted off their shoulders they don t have to worry about being deported they can do their jobs and i believe i do believe this someday someday soon they will be american citizens president trump is also dismissing revelations in a new book from his former national security adviser as pure fiction john bolton who quit last year accuses the president of asking federal leaders including china s premier for help to get to meet reelected bolton also alleges large gaps in trump s knowledge of world affairs. trump is clearly ethically unfit and intellectually unprepared to be the president of the united states that doesn t seem to matter to the republicans in the united states senate didn t fim to matter to john bolton he chose royalty over lot over patriotism and and and so he s going to make money off of his book again as he ll will make a j
senior political correspondent for the center for public integrity, a nonprofit center for investigative journalism in d.c. in 1996 he received the gerald r. ford prize and the aldo beckman award from the white house correspondents association for coverage of the presidency. the first time anyone had captured both the wars awards ie year. he s a frequent guest lecturer at various yufruniversity inclu stanford, harvard, the united states military academy, university of chicago and other institutions abroad. he is the author of three books, clarence darrow, attorney for the damned and chip o neal. tonight his third book on richard nixon, a biography of the 37th president of the united states. this book has won the pen america award for the best biography of the year, the new york historical society s barbara and david zalosnik book prize in american history and was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. after the program, please join us in the atrium where his book is for sale and